CAS/MillerComm Lecture/Philipp Fehl Memorial Lecture: “Fake, Facsimile, Print: The Techniques and Technologies of Textual Reproduction, 1450 to the Future” by Nick Wilding

• Event Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2015
• Time: 4:00 pm–5:30 pm (CST)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk
• Family-Friendly tag

The difficulties involved in detecting twenty-first century forgeries of early modern books show that we are close to producing perfect forgeries. This talk will describe the history of faking print artifacts and the economic and cultural systems that make such forgeries possible. When did print first acquire the capacity adequately to represent reality? Under what conditions does it matter whether a printed object is materially genuine? What would happen were we to abandon our efforts to distinguish between the fake and the real book?

The CAS/MillerComm public events series brings to campus people who offer unique cross-disciplinary contributions to the intellectual and cultural life of the university.

This Center for Advanced Study event is hosted by the School of Architecture, School of Art + Design in conjunction with the Art History Program, College of Law, Department of Astronomy, Department of History, Department of Religion, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Spurlock Museum.